Home Stretch

Not much to say... woke up, went for a little walk... the wind had died down and the sky was overcast. There were ducks and llamas in the grounds, which made for an interesting experience from my end of the lead. In the river which lapped gently against the shores, a dolphin was ambling around, and a pelican came in to land.

Breakfast was delivered to our room, and we ate it fairly quickly then left.

We drove up to Nambucca Heads itself where the wind was still quite strong and blowing some surf in off the Ocean proper. On the way back to the Highway we called in at a petrol station and actually had our tank filled by a one-armed pump attendant, which hadn't happened to either of us for a very long time - regardless of the dexterity of the filler.

The drive up went reasonably uneventfully. We soon stopped at a Forest Park whose name I don't remember and walked a little "Stretch Your Legs" trail where I stretched Eloise's legs while the dogs stretched Nicole's. We later stopped at a beach at Lennox Heads to walk the dogs properly. We were on pretty safe ground with the dogs as the weather wasn't great and there wasn't anyone around. The wind had picked up again and got progressively worse until we were getting sandblasted and Eloise started to look like she'd been coiffured by the Devil.

We had lunch at Byron Bay in a nice fish restaurant and pressed on. Before long, after driving past a giant Banana and a giant Shrimp, we were back in QLD and on the home strait.

Before long we were back home, and very relieved to be so. I thought Sproggy did very well to do what was basically four days of driving with very little bad humour, though I suppose I should thank some mystery being for her being unable to say "Are we nearly there yet?"

The dogs didn't sleep in our bed that night. They did wake us up at five o'clock though. The buggers.

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